As moderator of about 400 subreddits, violentacrez had become known for controlling shock forums like r/picsofdeadkids, r/nazi, and at one time, r/jailbait.

Also recently subreddits dedicated to public upskirt photos, with some users intentionally targeting the underage, and a subreddit dedicated towards beating women. Reddit has immediately leapt to the defense of this person as a valuable member of the community.

RoyBatty:and near as I can tell only FARK and FARKers have a sense of humor.

That's because Fark has no real way to stroke an ego. Reddit has the voting on comments thing where people get wrapped up in upvoting and downvoting instead of just posting and and being interested in what's actually being said.

GAT_00:Reddit has immediately leapt to the defense of this person as a valuable member of the community.

This is not true.

What is more accurate is that at Reddit, a few sub-reddits, and some big ones are in that, are taking a stance against doxxing.

If Gawker's reporter wants to report on violentacrez there is no journalistic need to dox him. If he is breaking the law, report that to the police and dox him there. Gawker's reporter, Adrian Chen is not doing this out of some sense of journalism. He has a long history of acts specifically taken against reddit. Doxxing this one individual is a part of that.

This was followed up by the predditors site also doxxing people that had engaged in posting to creepshots, which ugly as it is, does seem to be legal.

There were also occurrences of what I think was actually illegal, people threatened with doxxing unless they engaged in certain acts (turning over control of their reddits, terminating their accounts.)

We've all been involved with internet feuds. For the most part, these feuds should stay on the internet and not carry over to real life.

So quite a few reddit groups are taking a stance against Gawker's doxxing, and yes, violentacrez is a pustule and he is at the heart of it.

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."

― H.L. Mencken

I would think one of FARK's uber liberal elites would be supportive of freedom, because first it's assholes like violentacrez, then maybe it's atheists or muslims, and at some point it's just because you were an asshole that one day in that forum.

Today more than seven different subreddits banned links to stories from Gawker in solidarity with violentacrez, despite the fact that most regular redditors refuse to click on links from the media network to begin with.

I find the fact that so many people are dumping on Reddit hilarious. I bailed on Fark for a while in favor of reddit because there was more content and you could have discussions without the Politics Tab trolls infesting every corner of the site.

That being said, the Sports Tab game discussion threads are still better on Fark. So, shock and amazement, I use both sites.

Doxxing is a stupid term. Can't it just be "identifying"? Even "outing" would do.

I don't know what I hate more, Reddit or Gawker. I do think that no matter how questionable the depraved antics of some people, if they're not illegal, or harming anyone, then no one has a right to crusade to shut them down, because that's even worse.

Reddit is alright. As long as you don't participate in the comments, read the comments, click on anything that mentions karma or anything from the atheism, politics, gaming, AMA, IAmA, or AskReddit subreddits.

Reddit is nothing more than a third rate Fark and a fourth rate 4chan. I have a deep disdain for Reddit that borders on being unhealthy. I hate everything about it. It's full of Asperger preteens and teens, and the "college" kids that go there are probably in community college or dropouts. They have absolutely nothing worthwhile, and I'm especially offended by the very notion of the AMAs. The very premise is narcissistic and attention whorey. Neither of which are uncommon on the internet, but this is the worst of both worlds. Who the hell do these people think they are in which people want to take their time to ask them questions? What makes them so damn special in their eyes? It's painful, because celebrities I actually give a frak about like Louis CK and Kevin Smith have done AMAs. Gary Johnson has done a couple as well, but I can let that slide since he's attempting to be smart and broaden his demographic. Newsflash: The farktards that go to Reddit are not going to vote with intelligence. Ugh, farking Reddit. Ya know what? Fark should add a Reddit filter so that the word itself is banned.

Fark is leaps and bounds better than anything Reddit could ever hope or dream to become. As someone mentioned earlier Fark feels more at home. You have Drew pop in every now and then. There's actual quality control even if the mods fail sometimes. The people that post in the threads, even the most idiotic of trolls and assholes still have a better quality to them than anything Reddit could ever do.

Fubini:Frankly... Reddit seems like it's full of Narcissists who don't care about people so much as they care about their super-specific subculture.

Reddit seems to be the new web browser friendly usenet, with bonus gamification and a bit of social networking.

It's interesting to compare reddit and fark, with fark being so much older and yet handling images better (imho) than reddit until you load in browser extensions. And yet, reddit does some things better than fark simply because it's newer: formatting of posts for example.

Fark feels homier (that's an "m" not an "r n"), because Drew pops up now and again and there is a strong and fun cult of Drew/Beer. And also because there are only so many threads, so like rides at Disneyland you can do them in an afternoon.

Reddit feels like some social experiment because the Admins there are often very very silent when they should speak up, because to them it's all bacterial growth in a "free speech" petri dish sim.